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24 16 Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA (1857-1947) THE GARDEN GATE, 1925 oil on canvas signed and dated lower right 24.25 by 20.50in. (61.6 by 52.1cm) Frame Size: 29.5 by 25.5in. (74.9 by 64.8cm) Provenance: Adam’s, 5 December 2006, lot 137; Private collection Born in Dublin, the son of an English railway manager and his French wife, Stanhope Forbes became one of the best known painters of his generation, and an important link between English and Irish artists of the period. He was educated at Dulwich College in London, where he studied art under John Sparkes who later taught at South Kensington School of Art. When his father went to work in Luxembourg and Belgium Forbes was removed from Dulwich and received private tutelage in Brussels. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the family returned to London. He studied at the Lambeth School of Art (now the City & Guilds of London Art School) and at the RA Schools (1874-1878) under Sir Frederic Leighton and Sir John Millais. During this period Forbes returned to Ireland to visit Dr Andrew Melville, a family friend and Queen’s College professor. During his visit he painted landscapes of the Galway area. Later Forbes relocated to France spending two years in the studio of Léon Bonnat in Clichy, Paris from 1880 to 1882. He also painted in Brittany, meeting a host of other young artists including the Irishmen Walter Osborne, Joseph Malachy Kavanagh, Nathaniel Hill and Norman Garstin - all of whom were influenced by the plein air naturalism of Bastien-Lepage. A Street In Brittany, was shown at the 1882 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and sold to the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. His Breton Children in an Orchard - Quimperlé, was shown at the 1884 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Two other works, Fair Measures: a shop in Quimperlé and Preparations for the Market, Quimperlé were both shown at the Royal Academy in 1884. The same year Forbes moved to Newlyn in Cornwall, where along with Garstin he became a leading proponent of the Newlyn School. The artist colony received national attention with the Royal Academy exhibition of Forbes’ works in 1885. He was a founding member of the NEAC in 1899, and together with his wife - the artist Elizabeth Armstrong whom he married the same year - ran the well known Newlyn Art School. In 1910 Forbes was elected a Royal Academician, making Senior Academician in 1933 and he also became a member of the St Ives Society of Artists in 1928. After his wife’s death, Forbes married friend and previous student Maudie Palmer. He died in Newlyn on 2 March 1947 at the age of 89. €12,000-€15,000 (£10,620-£13,270 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot16